Emergencies Quotes - Page 15

• Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.

  Mitt Romney

  Financial, American History, Scales

  "Mitt Romney: Obama isn't serious about America's financial health". New Hampshire Union Leader, April 25, 2011.

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• Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nurse, Tea, Dying

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just women but men - we're asking men to dig deep and deconstruct their seat of privilege. Because this is an emergency. We're in threat of losing our homes, the future of our future generations, and the biological paradise that we're apart of. It's in the interest of all people that we lean on the feminine archetype in our movement forward.

  Antony Hegarty

  Home, Men, People

  "Five Women Artists Are Setting The Stage For A Future Feminism". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat.

  David Mitchell

  Seats

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• She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

  Abraham Verghese

  Medicine, Feelings, Stakes

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.42, Random House India

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• Military simulation is an important way of training people for an emergency

  Greg Gutfeld

  Military, People, Training

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.

  Anne Hathaway

  House, Done, Remaining Calm

  Interview with Angelina Jolie, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2010.

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• The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility.

  Ken Calvert

  Events, Nuclear, Leaks

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• When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

  Ann Brashares

  Father, Book, Two

  The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

  Janet Poppendieck

  Attention, Fundamentals, Poverty

  Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.305, Penguin

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• We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Risk, Cold

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• If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. If you take them just for emergency, that's all they're gonna get.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Dentist, Checks

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• When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.

  Jeff Raikes

  Children, School, Saving Up

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• The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Self, Let It Go

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

  Larry Wall

  Cute, Cutting, Levels

  Usenet postings, 1997.

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• When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

  Rich Lowry

  Mom, Dad, Nice

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• When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.

  Glen Mazzara

  Doors, Trying, Calm

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• The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be segregated during the reproductive periodwe prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded.

  Margaret Sanger

  Girl, Class, Parenthood

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• Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

  Walter Benjamin

  Race, Different, World

  "Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1938–1940". Book edited by Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings, 1996.

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• Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

  Julian Green

  Society, Becoming, World

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• Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Week, Mayors

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

  Victor Hugo

  Spiritual, Jobs, Real

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• We have certain things where we know they exist or "everybody knows they exist," but naturally nobody can photograph them, because they are so super secret. For example, the PEOC, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center exists, but nobody knows how it looks, but it's a so called bunker where he can survive a nuclear attack.

  Roland Emmerich

  Presidential, Secret, Example

  Source: collider.com

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• For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.

  C. Wright Mills

  Reality, Men, Talking

  "The Power Elite". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1956.

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• No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Exercise, Excuse You, Tolerance

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.69, Northwestern University Press

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